The SAP ERP Solution provides a sales planning and forecasting module that allows for forecasting of sales either at the company level or lowest category level which can then be pushed down or rolled up from the bottom. The SAP ERP Solution utilizes lot of complex algorithms including actual sales trend to help determine the forecast.
The SAP ERP Solution allows easy conversion of sales forecasts into financial plans, merchandise plans, assortment plans, promotional plans, real estate management plans, budgets, etc. and ties them together seamlessly since SAP is an integrated system.
The SAP ERP Solution allows the conversion of merchandise plan as derived from the global sales plan to the sales plan for each buyer and / or merchandise category for a store or a group of store or a region.
The SAP systems sales and planning module includes the ability to create analysis for a snapshot in time or over time in order to track actual performance versus plans. The standard SAP ERP Solution comes with lot of reports for sales planning and forecasting and provides functionality to simulate a particular action. You can carry out model-based simulations in this total context to demonstrate the effects of operational variables such as price changes, process optimizations, investments or reorganizations on the total plan and on the key performance indicators.
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This post was written by techhair on June 4, 2008
